Simple solution to some very big problems - Find common interests, help each other

Someone came to the our door begging for work.

Stories in our media say shooing her away is the safest thing to do.

But instead I connected with her. She has five children, two are teenagers and are still living with her. She cut our grass, I paid her, and we agreed that she’ll come back for a photo and that I would list her free ad on our block club and other bulletin boards.

Seems to me that she and I and many others helping one another is the...